Whales for Mink

Boom Coming?

IN a recent interview, Mr. Alan Anderson, managing director of Ande r s o n’s Meat Industries, which operates the whaling station at Byron Bay, NSW, and is estab lishing a station at Norfolk Is., said that the NI station should be ready to commence operations soon after the beginning of the whaling season, mid-1956. The firm had a license to take 150 whales per season, and would use the two whale-chasers based at Byron Bay.

A two-storied building is being erected at Cascades, NI, and machinery imported from Norway would soon be installed. Whale oil and cattle food would be produced and about 75 Norfolk Islanders would be employed in this, the only factory on the island.

There were two other items of whaling news in January: A repre sentative of a mink-breeding organ isation in the United States was in Sydney seeking to purchase the entire output of Australian whale meat for these valuable fur-bear mg animals; and it has been an nounced that a whaling station on Great Barrier Island, out from Auckland, will be established.

A daughter was recently bom to the Rev. and Mrs. S. Geddes, of the Methodist Mission, New Guinea.